I appreciate the ideas, but that just isn't gonna work with this fork. There is a lot of thick steel doubled up under the cowl of this fork.
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☣☢ VerBoten ☠ϟ - Elgin Twin Evanaction Build - Big Butt Strikes Again!!
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Yeah, what Kingfish said. Think of the Evansaction as a complete forged fork pivoting between the legs of a slightly wider fork. The pivot bolts are also placed at a point where they just exacerbate the problem. I was a little surprised that the 2.125 tire fit between there on a 57mm rim, but I think it looks great on there.
At one point, I had discussed stretching and reshaping both inner and outer forks with a blacksmith friend of mine, but by the time we would have made the fixtures and all to keep everything aligned while putting the crowns into the forge... it would have been easier to just fabricate a wider replica of the original fork than to widen the original.
Time to work on how to attach the flipped skirts onto VerBoten. For now I have these conduit clamps as standoff mounts. I plan to modify them so the screw aren't there.
Tie wrap mockup time before I do any cutting or drilling on the skirts.
I really like the Yin Yang curve if you follow the seat stay curve followed by the skirt trailing edge curve
Tie wrap mockup time before I do any cutting or drilling on the skirts.
I really like the Yin Yang curve if you follow the seat stay curve followed by the skirt trailing edge curve
Wow finally got a chance to catch up on the build, the bars are going be interesting as to what you settle with , but loving the build so far.
Converted a conduit clamp to a standoff mount. I still need to modify the other ones.
Removed the fender tabs and trimmed up one of the skirts and mounted it.
Then I did a test mock with a chainguard I remembered that I had.
Landshark......ba-dump.....ba-dump...ba-dump, ba-dump,ba-dump......[emoji12]
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I have a feeling that when you chop the bars it'll look better as well as being more rideable. (to me, anyway.
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Any thoughts of using a full Elgin chainguard like this one?
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Cool idea on the clamp mod.
Any thoughts of using a full Elgin chainguard like this one?
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Been there, done that.
Oh yeah, forgot about that........[emoji5]️
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I like this chainguard. Not so visually heavy that it would distract from the bb fairing and the lack of a seat tube.
Love the skirt deal!
Yin Yang describes it perfectly! The whole bike has kind of a "swirl" look to it, like everything is in motion. Maybe the exception is the chainring....straight angles and lines. What about something like this for the ring....not this exact one, the holes are a little too eliptical for your build. But something in a swirl type pattern....just a thought.
...you probably recognize the chain guard....
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I really like the upside down skirts , that's a great idea
Yin Yang describes it perfectly! The whole bike has kind of a "swirl" look to it, like everything is in motion. Maybe the exception is the chainring....straight angles and lines. What about something like this for the ring....not this exact one, the holes are a little too eliptical for your build. But something in a swirl type pattern....just a thought.
...you probably recognize the chain guard....
I could always switch to my Monark chainring.
